Cinema and TV
GREECE
Never on Sunday
by Angelos, Vaso and Andreas
The “NeveronSunday” a romantic comedy ” by
Jules Dassin”, starring
with Melina Mercouri,
filmed in Greece in 1960 and is one of the most
famous films of world cinema because of the
Oscar-winning music by Manos Hantzidakis. The
film led to increase in tourism and location
shooting there. But not only was it the product
of an American writer-director’s imagination, but
it was even resented by many in it’s country of
origin. Never on Sunday was the brainchild of
American expatriate Jules Dassin. After a
promising start in Hollywood as dire ctor of such
acclaimed film noirs as Brute Force and the
Naked City Dassin had been subpoenaed by the
House Committee and Un-American activities
because of busy directing a play he received a
postponement, only to discover that he scored
an international hit in 1955 with the caper film
Rififi.
The film
has as subject a girl Ilia which is whore.But she
is different from the other girls with the same
profession . Ilia when he shows a Greek festival
and on Sundays there never accept customers.
At the same time comes in Piraeus Omar an
American “scouts” who has an idealistic image of
Greece and he’s ‘scout “change” the Ilia. He
want to make her “ a better person“.
As he came closer to her see that Ilia love
Greek tragedy but she don’t know much about
her. Omar decide to teach Ilia Music, singing and
Ancient Greek Literature.
But Ilia discovers the Intentions of Omar and she
send him away from here.